Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction: A Guide for Native-speaker Teachers of English Preparing to Work Overseas.Puts overseas teaching in its broader context: social, cultural, political, and economic. Explains how a country's educational and institutional structures and systems affect language teaching. Provides 'case studies' in each chapter based on a range of specific countries and teaching situations Suitable for both pre-service and in-service teachers Can be used as part of a teacher training course or for self-study |
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Language teaching and the sociopolitical context | 3 |
continued | 18 |
Language teaching and the economic context | 25 |
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acoustically affricate allophone alveolar alveolar ridge American Speech aspirated assimilation Atlas Brazilian Portuguese British chapter classroom close Cockney consonant cluster context CRUZ The University cultural curriculum dental diglossia diphthong economic English language English Sounds English teaching Examples expatriate language teachers Filipinos final foreign French frequently front vowels glottal glottal stop glottis initial intervocalic intonation Italian language planning learning English linguistic lips Malaysia medial medium of instruction Mountain speech nasal non-palatal Norwegian NOTE occurs orthographic palatal consonant Pennsylvania German Philippines phonetic plosive or fricative position preceding Pretonic pronunciation Russian schools secondary stress silent South Spanish speakers standard stressed syllables substandard substitute symbol teeth tongue tongue-point Transcribe and pronounce transcription trill unaspirated unstressed velum vibration Viëtor voiced consonant voiced plosives voiceless wherever encountered word beginning words spelled
References to this book
English in the World: Global Rules, Global Roles Rani Rubdy,Mario Saraceni No preview available - 2006 |